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KU program trains city managers
By MARK MITCHELL Feature Reporter
The city manager training program at the University of Kansas supplies almost 65 per cent of the nation's city managers, Bob Denhardt, director of KU's graduate program in public administration, said recently.
The University's city manager program is the best-known program in the nation,亨德勒 said. Twenty students from 12 school districts and two to participate in a combination of scavenger hunt and internship study to learn more about the managerial problems facing cities.
The city manager is part of the council-manager plan of government, which combines the strong political leadership of elected council members with the strong managerial experience of the city manager, Denhardt said.
The city manager program at the University is conducted through the political science department as part of the graduate program of public administration, Denhardt said. He said the program in charge of managing government administration, general management and health service management.
SenEx group to settle differences on exigency
A committee charged with ironing out the differences between two financial exigency reporting standards.
The committee, chaired by Sen-
member Joel Gold, will issue a single report based on the reports of the ad hoc committee on financial exigency and a group of members acting as "as expediently as possible", the committee's report to SenEx and the University Council
SenEx also discussed a letter from Richard Cole, professor of philosophy, expressing concern the inability of the University Senate to function efficiently.
SenEx decided to send Cole's letter to the organization and administration committee.
"It seems to me that the solution to this problem lies in making the Senate a body with just ratification powers and the power to overrule but without the power to initiate legislation," Cole's letter said. "Indeed, this is what practice has made it."
Cole's letter went on to say that objections to changing the role of the Senate stemmed from a distrust of the University Council. The distrust of the council comes from the selecting councillors, he said, which have real constituencies to be accountable to.
"I would propose that the election method be changed so that each school have proportionate representation in the Council, except for a number of at-large seats large
enough to make the College's representation less than a majority, 'Cole's letter
"Each school could decide on the method of election for its representatives. This would be a minimal but important change in the way schools represent what distrust might exist with the Coppeh."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankel discussed the ramifications of the appointment of Keith Nichter as director of the Lawrence University for the Lawrence and Kansas City campus, James Seaver, chairman of SenEx said.
Dykes and Shankel met with SenEx in
dialed session, so no further details were
available.
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The council-manager program isn't restricted to large cities, he said. Almost 2,400 communities, including independent cities, suburbs, 54 countries and large cities such as Phoenix, San Diego and Dallas, use the plan.
the managerial techniques. Denhardt said
several foremen who were enrolled in
the university's program agreed to
Dhenhardt said the University's program was well known because few universities with public administration programs included city managerial training in their curriculum. The College of Colorado and Syracuse University recently added this type of program, he said.
Many cities in Kansas use the councilmanager plan,he said,and many of the city managers are graduates of the city managing program.
Bufford Watson of Lawrence, Tom Downs of Leavenworth, Lee Aeyers of Overland Park and Robert Kipp of Kansas City, Mo., are former students in the program.
The program was begun in 1948 as the brain child of Edwin O. Stene, a former KU professor, and L. P. Cookingham, then city manager of Kansas City, Mo., Denhardt said. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation approved a grant to support the program, which instructed students who would be working in urban areas of government.
City manager students spend one year on the campus taking managerial courses, and follow up these studies with a nine-month city government operation, Denhardt said.
Dhenhardt said he received calls almost every day from people who had internships open in the cities. The internship gives the student experience in his future occupation, he said, but the student's academic career is now being tested by a week-long seminars in November and April.
Students are selected for available positions through interviews, he said. Internships may involve working in research, finance offices and personnel offices or sometimes becoming an assistant manager of a city.
Denhardt said most students in the program had an undergraduate background in the social sciences. However, there are no restrictions on undergraduate degrees, he said, and some managerial students have degrees in engineering or English.
Although the council-manager system is dominant in the United States, some for-eviction teams also exist.
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